Eat it then eat lots of beans and fart while in a handstand.
Put it on the hand of a clock, then speed time up a whole bunch so it’s flug really fast off the end.
Hot air balloon.
Blimp.
Hold it and jump really high.
Go around back of the moon and shove the moon into the Earth.
Use an airplane.
Throw it hard with your arm.
Put something really heavy at the end of a slide, put that slide end on the moon, and send the thing down the slide.
Smash an asteroid into the Earth so the part of Earth the object’s on breaks off and smashes into the moon.
Use a portal gun and shove the thing through the portal.
Use a shrink ray so the thing’s so small that… something something particle physics, waveforms, everywhere all at once.
Locate the parallel dimension where the thing’s already on the moon and go there.
Drop something really heavy on the other end of a teeter totter.
Trebuchet.
Fire it from a big gun.
Gigantic bow and arrow.
Use one of those toys with the yoyo thing on rails until it goes so fast it’s flung off the end all the way to the moon.
Eat it, then eat a super poisonous mushroom, then vomit upward.
Send it to exactly the right star then explode the star in such a way that the object is propelled toward the moon.
Put it on a comet that’s headed for the moon.
Put it inside of a soccer ball and kick it really hard.
Pick it up off of the ground way harder than you meant to.
Put it in a Chalmers book then make me read the Chalmers book.
Drop it on the best trampoline ever.
Put it on a ferris wheel that spins really super fast.
Locate a time when it’s already there, then time travel to that time.
Put it on a barbell and give the barbell to one of those guys who drops barbells really loudly at the gym to show off, but dose him with insecurity juice so he drops the barbell so hard it goes all the way through the center of the Earth and out the other side and to the moon.
Tie it to the foot of a gymnast before she does a super flippy flip so she flings it off of the end of her foot and to the moon.
Give the idea to Atrus or one of the other D’ni Myst characters and ask them to write a detailed description of it being on the moon.
Put it in the straw of my water bottle, seal the lid on, and send the bottle from sea level to the top of a tall mountain really fast so the pressure change launches the object to the moon.
Go find a bit of moon rock and put the object on it.
Make a ladder from the Earth to the moon and climb the ladder while holding the object.
Elevator to the moon.
Escalator to the moon.
Staircase to the moon.
Float it on the surface of a pot of water, then heat the water super hot super quickly so it’s exploded off the surface.
Sneak it into an astronaut’s luggage.
Give it to a USPS mail carrier with a moon address and a shittton of stamps.
Put it in an elephant’s trunk, then give him sneezing powder.
Put it in the ocean, then make an enormous wave.
Shove it in a super duper volcano then block up all the other volcanoes so there’s only one way for the pressure to escape.
Put it in a car and tell Yahoo Maps to send it to the bottom of the ocean.
Give it to GPT5 and ask the robot to send it to the moon.
Go back in time to retrieve DaVinci and give him a million dollars to send it to the moon.
Put it on the negative pole of a gigantic magnet and shove the positive pole of another gigantic magnet against it.
Put it on one side of a pancake and flip the pancake way too hard.
Jacob I like this post and I had a good time. Thanks :)
I started out with the procedure I describe here, as a warmup. I got to number 11 in the first three minutes, then when I started the second half of the procedure I just kept going.
This list took me about 30 minutes, so it’s probably not the same as “the best 50 ideas I can come up with in an hour”. If I were going to do another 30 minutes to make a better list, I think I’d highlight my favorite ideas so far, ask myself what it was like to come up with those ones in particular, and try to adopt more of whatever mental postures those are for the rest of the time. I expect I’d have fewer ideas in the subsequent half hour, but they’d probably be more to my liking, on average.
A different thing I think I could do with that second half hour to make a better list would be to pick several of the items from the first list that seem like they could use further development, perhaps because they have an obvious practical flaw (such as “but there’s no air between the Earth and the moon!”) and take them as prompts, each for three to five minutes.
If I wanted to just explode this list into way more ideas that are all over the place, I’d try the grid method I describe at the bottom of the document I linked above.
Put it on a rocket and light the fuel.
Use a big catapult.
Give it to a gigantic bird.
Eat it then eat lots of beans and fart while in a handstand.
Put it on the hand of a clock, then speed time up a whole bunch so it’s flug really fast off the end.
Hot air balloon.
Blimp.
Hold it and jump really high.
Go around back of the moon and shove the moon into the Earth.
Use an airplane.
Throw it hard with your arm.
Put something really heavy at the end of a slide, put that slide end on the moon, and send the thing down the slide.
Smash an asteroid into the Earth so the part of Earth the object’s on breaks off and smashes into the moon.
Use a portal gun and shove the thing through the portal.
Use a shrink ray so the thing’s so small that… something something particle physics, waveforms, everywhere all at once.
Locate the parallel dimension where the thing’s already on the moon and go there.
Drop something really heavy on the other end of a teeter totter.
Trebuchet.
Fire it from a big gun.
Gigantic bow and arrow.
Use one of those toys with the yoyo thing on rails until it goes so fast it’s flung off the end all the way to the moon.
Eat it, then eat a super poisonous mushroom, then vomit upward.
Send it to exactly the right star then explode the star in such a way that the object is propelled toward the moon.
Put it on a comet that’s headed for the moon.
Put it inside of a soccer ball and kick it really hard.
Pick it up off of the ground way harder than you meant to.
Put it in a Chalmers book then make me read the Chalmers book.
Drop it on the best trampoline ever.
Put it on a ferris wheel that spins really super fast.
Locate a time when it’s already there, then time travel to that time.
Put it on a barbell and give the barbell to one of those guys who drops barbells really loudly at the gym to show off, but dose him with insecurity juice so he drops the barbell so hard it goes all the way through the center of the Earth and out the other side and to the moon.
Tie it to the foot of a gymnast before she does a super flippy flip so she flings it off of the end of her foot and to the moon.
Give the idea to Atrus or one of the other D’ni Myst characters and ask them to write a detailed description of it being on the moon.
Put it in the straw of my water bottle, seal the lid on, and send the bottle from sea level to the top of a tall mountain really fast so the pressure change launches the object to the moon.
Go find a bit of moon rock and put the object on it.
Make a ladder from the Earth to the moon and climb the ladder while holding the object.
Elevator to the moon.
Escalator to the moon.
Staircase to the moon.
Float it on the surface of a pot of water, then heat the water super hot super quickly so it’s exploded off the surface.
Sneak it into an astronaut’s luggage.
Give it to a USPS mail carrier with a moon address and a shittton of stamps.
Put it in an elephant’s trunk, then give him sneezing powder.
Put it in the ocean, then make an enormous wave.
Shove it in a super duper volcano then block up all the other volcanoes so there’s only one way for the pressure to escape.
Put it in a car and tell Yahoo Maps to send it to the bottom of the ocean.
Give it to GPT5 and ask the robot to send it to the moon.
Go back in time to retrieve DaVinci and give him a million dollars to send it to the moon.
Put it on the negative pole of a gigantic magnet and shove the positive pole of another gigantic magnet against it.
Put it on one side of a pancake and flip the pancake way too hard.
Jacob I like this post and I had a good time. Thanks :)
I don’t know what it says about me that
“Eat it then eat lots of beans then fart while in a handstand.”
was the fourth thing I thought of. Wtf brain.
Whoa. I also thought of this, though for me it was like thing 24 or something, and I was too embarrassed to actually include it in my post.
I started out with the procedure I describe here, as a warmup. I got to number 11 in the first three minutes, then when I started the second half of the procedure I just kept going.
This list took me about 30 minutes, so it’s probably not the same as “the best 50 ideas I can come up with in an hour”. If I were going to do another 30 minutes to make a better list, I think I’d highlight my favorite ideas so far, ask myself what it was like to come up with those ones in particular, and try to adopt more of whatever mental postures those are for the rest of the time. I expect I’d have fewer ideas in the subsequent half hour, but they’d probably be more to my liking, on average.
A different thing I think I could do with that second half hour to make a better list would be to pick several of the items from the first list that seem like they could use further development, perhaps because they have an obvious practical flaw (such as “but there’s no air between the Earth and the moon!”) and take them as prompts, each for three to five minutes.
If I wanted to just explode this list into way more ideas that are all over the place, I’d try the grid method I describe at the bottom of the document I linked above.